Annelien Van Wauwe (born 1987) is a Belgian clarinetist who performs internationally as a soloist. She was educated by
Sabine Meyer
Sabine Meyer (born 30 March 1959) is a German classical clarinetist.
Biography
Born in Crailsheim, Baden-Württemberg, Meyer began playing the clarinet at an early age. Her first teacher was her father, also a clarinetist. She studied with Otto ...
and other internationally known teachers. She has won numerous international competitions and performs with top international orchestras and as a sought-after soloist at international festivals, but is also active in chamber music with her own ensemble. Several works have been composed especially for her.
[Mozart Society, biography of AVW]
Dortmund
Dortmund (; Westphalian nds, Düörpm ; la, Tremonia) is the third-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne and Düsseldorf, and the eighth-largest city of Germany, with a population of 588,250 inhabitants as of 2021. It is the la ...
She is also a principal teacher for historical and modern clarinet at the
Royal Conservatory Antwerp.
She lives in
Berlin
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.
Education
Van Wauwe was born in
Hamme
Hamme () is a municipality located in the Belgian province of East Flanders. The municipality comprises the towns of Hamme proper, Kastel Moerzeke, and . In 2018, Hamme had a total population of 24,827. The total area is 40.21 km². The cur ...
, Belgium. She began playing the
clarinet
The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The instrument has a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell, and uses a single reed to produce sound.
Clarinets comprise a family of instruments of differing sizes and pitches ...
at the age of 8. After completing secondary school in 2004, she began her training as a professional clarinetist at the
Musikhochschule Lübeck
A music school is an educational institution specialized in the study, training, and research of music. Such an institution can also be known as a school of music, music academy, music faculty, college of music, music department (of a larger ins ...
with
Sabine Meyer
Sabine Meyer (born 30 March 1959) is a German classical clarinetist.
Biography
Born in Crailsheim, Baden-Württemberg, Meyer began playing the clarinet at an early age. Her first teacher was her father, also a clarinetist. She studied with Otto ...
at the age of 17. After graduating there, she continued her education at the
Paris Conservatory
The Conservatoire de Paris (), also known as the Paris Conservatory, is a college of music and dance founded in 1795. Officially known as the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP), it is situated in the avenue ...
for music and dance with
Pascal Moraguès in 2009 and from January 2010 at the
Accademia di Santa Cecilia
The Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia ( en, National Academy of St Cecilia) is one of the oldest musical institutions in the world, founded by the papal bull ''Ratione congruit'', issued by Sixtus V in 1585, which invoked two saints prom ...
in Rome with
Alessandro Carbonare Alessandro Carbonare is an Italian clarinetist.
Carbonare started on E clarinet at age 5. At age 21 he became co-principal of the Lyon Opera Orchestra, and later joined the Orchestre National de France. has been the principal clarinetist with the ...
and then at the
Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler
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Berlin with Ralf Forster, solo-clarinetist of
Konzerthausorchester Berlin
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and
Wenzel Fuchs
Wenzel Fuchs (born 1963 in Innsbruck, Austria) is an Austrian clarinetist.
He studied clarinet at the Innsbruck Conservatory with Walter Kefer and at the Vienna Music Academy with Peter Schmidl. He has performed with the Vienna State Opera, the Vi ...
and completed a master class in
Los Angeles
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with
Yehuda Gilad. In the field of historical performance practice, she studied classical clarinet at the Paris Conservatory with and at the Musikhochschule
Trossingen
Trossingen ( Swabian: ''Drossinge'') is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated in a region called Baar, between the Swabian Alb and the Black Forest. Stuttgart is about an hour away, Lake Constance about half an hour, and the sour ...
with Ernst Schlader.
[ Her studies have been supported by numerous grants from Belgian and foreign foundations and societies.][
During her education Annelien van Wauwe played in the Junge Belgische Philhamonie, the ''Jeugd en Muziekorkest'' Antwerp, the Niederländisches Jugendorchester, the ]Orchestre de Paris
The Orchestre de Paris () is a French orchestra based in Paris. The orchestra currently performs most of its concerts at the Philharmonie de Paris.
History
In 1967, following the dissolution of the Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Co ...
under Christoph Eschenbach
Christoph Eschenbach (; born 20 February 1940) is a German pianist and conductor.
Early life
Eschenbach was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland). His parents were Margarethe (née Jaross) and Heribert Ringmann. He was orphaned durin ...
and 2010 as principal clarinetist in the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester
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...
under Herbert Blomstedt
Herbert Thorson Blomstedt (; born 11 July 1927) is a Swedish conductor.
Herbert Blomstedt was born in Massachusetts. Two years after his birth, his Swedish parents moved the family back to their country of origin. He studied at the Stockholm Ro ...
.[
In 2018, she was appointed lecturer for historical and modern clarinet at the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp (part of the ]Artesis Hogeschool Antwerpen
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).[
]
Concertos
Van Wauwe has appeared as a soloist in major European concert halls, such as the Tonhalle Zürich Tonhalle is a German word meaning "tone hall", a concert hall. It may refer to:
*Tonhalle Düsseldorf
*Tonhalle Orchester Zürich
*Tonhalle, Zürich
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, the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles
The Centre for Fine Arts (french: Palais des Beaux-Arts, nl, Paleis voor Schone Kunsten) is a multi-purpose cultural venue in Brussels, Belgium. It is often referred to as BOZAR (a homophone of ''Beaux-arts'') in French or PSK in Dutch. The b ...
, the Konzerthaus Berlin
The Konzerthaus Berlin is a concert hall in Berlin, the home of the Konzerthausorchester Berlin. Situated on the Gendarmenmarkt square in the central Mitte district of the city, it was originally built as a theater. It initially operated from ...
, the Wiener Konzerthaus
The Konzerthaus is a concert hall located in Vienna, Austria, which opened in 1913. It is situated in the third district just at the edge of the first district in Vienna. Since it was founded it has always tried to emphasise both traditional and ...
, the Concertgebouw
The Royal Concertgebouw ( nl, Koninklijk Concertgebouw, ) is a concert hall in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The Dutch term "concertgebouw" translates into English as "concert building". Its superb acoustics place it among the finest concert halls i ...
in Amsterdam, and Wigmore Hall
Wigmore Hall is a concert hall located at 36 Wigmore Street, London. Originally called Bechstein Hall, it specialises in performances of chamber music, early music, vocal music and song recitals. It is widely regarded as one of the world's leadin ...
in London. She has performed with orchestras such as the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra
The Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra (German: ''Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR'') was a German radio orchestra based in Stuttgart in Germany.
History
The ensemble was founded in 1945 by American occupation authorities as the orchest ...
, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (german: Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, BRSO) is a German radio orchestra. Based in Munich, Germany, it is one of the city's four orchestras. The BRSO is one of two full-size symphony orchestr ...
, the Munich Chamber Orchestra
The Munich Chamber Orchestra (german: Münchener Kammerorchester, links=no, italic=no, or MKO) is a German chamber orchestra based in Munich. Its primary concert venue is the Prinzregententheater, Munich. The MKO also gives concerts in Munich at s ...
, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
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, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
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and the Brussels Philharmonic
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. In 2018 she performed on a modern basset clarinet
, french: clarinette de basset; it, clarinetto di bassetto;
, classification = Aerophon, clarinet-family
, hornbostel_sachs =
, hornbostel_sachs_desc =
, inventors = Theodor Lotz and others
, developed = aroun ...
the Clarinet Concerto (Mozart)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622, was completed in October 1791 for the clarinettist Anton Stadler. It consists of three movements, in a fast–slow–fast succession.
The work was completed a few weeks before ...
with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (BBC SSO) is a Scottish broadcasting symphony orchestra based in Glasgow. One of five full-time orchestras maintained by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), it is the oldest full-time professional rad ...
under Thomas Dausgaard
Thomas Dausgaard (; born 4 July 1963 in Copenhagen) is a Danish conductor.
Biography
Dausgaard studied conducting at the Royal Academy of Music in Copenhagen and with Norman Del Mar at the Royal College of Music in London. He subsequently partici ...
during a live broadcast on radio and television worldwide BBC Proms
The BBC Proms or Proms, formally named the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts Presented by the BBC, is an eight-week summer season of daily orchestral classical music concerts and other events held annually, predominantly in the Royal Albert Hal ...
at Royal Albert Hall
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, London. In early 2019 she appeared in Johannesburg
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and Pretoria
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Pretoria straddles the Apies River and extends ...
. Van Wauwe has regularly appeared at international festivals including the Lucerne Festival
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, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival
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History
The festival was founded in 1986 by German concert pianist Justus Frantz.
In 2006, the 2 ...
, the , the Kissinger Sommer
The Kissinger Sommer is a classical music festival held every year in the summer in the city of Bad Kissingen in Bavaria, Southern Germany.
History
The festival was founded in 1986. At the beginning the focus of the festival was on the improvem ...
, and the Festival de Radio France et Montpellier The Festival Radio France Occitanie Montpellier, formerly the Festival de Radio France et de Montpellier, is a summer festival of opera and music held in Montpellier, France created in 1985. The music festival concentrates on classical music and j ...
. In 2017, Manfred Trojahn Manfred Trojahn (born 22 October 1949) is a German composer, flautist, conductor and writer.
Career
Trojahn was born Cremlingen in Lower Saxony and began his musical studies in 1966 in orchestra music at the music school of Braunschweig. After gra ...
dedicated his ''Sonata V'' to her, which she premiered in Zurich and recorded for BBC Radio 3.
She is also active in the field of chamber music and was one of the co-founders of the Brussels chamber music ensemble Carousel in 2018. Van Wauwe is an ambitious yoga enthusiast. She believes that her yoga exercises have a "positive influence on her clarinet playing". Her practice of the discipline led to a specially commissioned concerto based on breathing and meditation by composer Wim Henderickx
Wim Henderickx (; 17 March 196218 December 2022) was a Belgian composer of contemporary classical music. He was composer in residence at Muziektheater Transparant and the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, writing operas and other stage works. His mu ...
. It was co-commissioned by the Borletti-Buitoni Trust
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and BBC Radio 3
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.[ This clarinet concerto called SUTRA "will be a spiritual meditation in which extreme virtuosity is coupled with an intense musical experience. Passages of peace, meditation and silence are combined with violent outbursts."
]
Awards
* 2004: 1st prize of the international Marco Fiorindo competition in Turin
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* 2005: 1st prize of the competition in Brussels
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[
* 2007: 1st prize of the international music competition for youth in Oldenburg, where she also received a special prize]
* 2009: 3rd prize of the International Clarinet Competition at the University of Music in Freiburg
* 2012: 1st prize of the sixth edition of the International Audi Mozart Competition in Rovereto
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History
Rovereto was an ancient fortress town standing at the frontier b ...
* 2012: 1st Prize of the International Clarinet Competition in Lisbon
* 2012: 2nd prize at ARD International Music Competition
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Si ...
in Munich
* 2012: Avard of the International Louis-Spohr-Competition in Kassel
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* 2015: Award of the VRT cultural channel of the public-law Flemish broadcaster Radio Klara
* 2015: Artist in Residence
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of BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC
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in the BBC New Generation Artist Program
* 2018: Prize of the Borletti-Buitoni Foundation
* 2020: Opus Klassik
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– Prize as a young artist (clarinet) in Berlin
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The 2012 ARD competition prize was decisive for her international career.
![Vintage mit Prestige bassett](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Vintage_mit_Prestige_bassett.jpg)
Instruments
Van Wauwe plays ''Vintage'' clarinets in B and A by Buffet Crampon, optimized by a German clarinet maker (low E improvement added). She performs the Mozart Concerto, like many solo clarinetists today, on a modern basset clarinet, a ''Prestige'' by Buffet Crampon.
Recordings
In 2015, Van Wauwe released a CD of clarinet sonatas by Mieczysław Weinberg
Mieczysław Weinberg (8 December 1919 – 26 February 1996) was a Polish-born Soviet composer and pianist.
Names
Much confusion has been caused by different renditions of the composer's names. In official Polish documents made before he mov ...
and Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev; alternative transliterations of his name include ''Sergey'' or ''Serge'', and ''Prokofief'', ''Prokofieff'', or ''Prokofyev''., group=n (27 April .S. 15 April1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian composer, p ...
, ''Weinberg-Prokofiev'', with the pianist Lucas Blondeel, and in 2019 the CD ''Belle époque'' with the Orchestre National de Lille and its music director Alexandre Bloch
Alexandre Bloch (29 May 1857–11 November 1919) was a French Academic art, academic painter, specialising in military subjects.
Biography
Bloch was born in the Boulevard de la Chapelle, 18th arrondissement of Paris.[Claude Debussy
(Achille) Claude Debussy (; 22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influential composers of the ...]
, Manfred Trojahn Manfred Trojahn (born 22 October 1949) is a German composer, flautist, conductor and writer.
Career
Trojahn was born Cremlingen in Lower Saxony and began his musical studies in 1966 in orchestra music at the music school of Braunschweig. After gra ...
, Gabriel Pierné
Henri Constant Gabriel Pierné (16 August 1863 – 17 July 1937) was a French composer, conductor, pianist and organist.
Biography
Gabriel Pierné was born in Metz. His family moved to Paris, after Metz and part of Lorraine were annexed to Germ ...
, Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms (; 7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897) was a German composer, pianist, and conductor of the mid- Romantic period. Born in Hamburg into a Lutheran family, he spent much of his professional life in Vienna. He is sometimes grouped wit ...
and Charles-Marie Widor
Charles-Marie-Jean-Albert Widor (21 February 1844 – 12 March 1937) was a French organist, composer and teacher of the mid-Romantic era, most notable for his ten organ symphonies. His Toccata from the fifth organ symphony has become one of the ...
. Mark Pullinger of ''Gramophone
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'', in his review of ''Belle époque'', praises the artist for the "great sensitivity to her phrasing" and emphasizes the first recording of Trojahn's ''Rhapsody'', the Caprice of which he calls a "high-wire act for the soloist, which Van Wauwe navigates with aplomb". Another reviewer, Stuart Sillitoe of ''MusicWeb International'', describes Van Wauwe as a "formidable clarinettist", and praises the playing on the entire disc. He characterizes her performance of Debussy's ''Première Rhapsodie'' as "superb", so good as now be his "favourite" over all of his other recordings of the work.[Stuart Sillitoe: ]
Belle époque
' ''musicweb-international.com'' October 2019 In 2022, she recorded Mozart's masterpiece for clarinet, the Concerto in A major K622, which she co-recorded with the world premiere of the Concerto Sutra by Belgian composer Wim Henderickx (April 2022, Pentatone).
Notes
References
External links
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Manfred Trojahn / Chamber music
Bärenreiter
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